Question

List the central reasoning the Supreme Court used in Brown v. Board of education and identify a key impact the ruling had on civil rights

Answer 1

Racial segregation was ruled as a violation against the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Its key impact as a result was leaving the road open to integration. The Court´s central reasoning was that to hold separate educational facilities was inherently unequal, and that even if separate facilities would have the same quality, the segregation itself was harmful for those thus segregated.